privacy policy

This policy explains what personal information this website collects, why, and what you can do about it.

Who I am

This website, kasra-shafiee.com, belongs to Kasra Shafieezadeh, an interior designer and 3D visualization specialist based in Northern Virginia, USA. For any privacy question, email info@kasra-shafiee.com.

What I collect

• Contact and estimate requests. When you send the contact form, I receive your name, email address, the services you selected, your message and any files you attach (plans, sketches, references). The form sends this to me by email and keeps a copy in the website’s private admin area, which only I can open, so that no request gets lost. I keep it only as long as needed to handle your request and our work together. To block spam, the form also uses your IP address, stored only as a scrambled (hashed) value for one hour, to limit how many messages one connection can send.
• Emails you send me directly, including any attachments.
• Visit statistics, only if you accept cookies. With your permission, the site uses Google Analytics to understand how many people visit and which pages they look at. See “Cookies and analytics” below.

How I use it

Only to answer your request, prepare estimates, carry out and invoice projects, and improve this website. I don’t sell your information and I don’t use it for unrelated marketing.

Cookies and analytics

Google Analytics runs only after you click “accept” in the cookie banner; if you click “reject”, or don’t choose, it doesn’t load. When it runs, it sets two cookies (_ga and _ga_Z0WVPMB9HT) and sends Google the pages you visit, the page you came from, your device and browser type, your approximate location (worked out from your IP address; Google Analytics doesn’t store IP addresses) and events such as clicks on outside links, file downloads and sending the contact form. Google’s advertising features are switched off on this site. Google processes this data under its own privacy policy and keeps detailed data for at most 14 months.

You can change your choice at any time with “cookie settings” at the bottom of every page. The cookie policy lists every cookie. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Visitors who aren’t logged in get no other cookies from this site; login cookies are only used by the site administrator.

Content from other sites

Fonts are served from this website itself. The About page loads its animation code from the jsDelivr network (cdn.jsdelivr.net). Videos are played from YouTube only after you press play. Links to Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, WhatsApp and Fiverr take you to those services, and their own privacy policies apply there.

Who else sees your data

Only the services needed to run this website: the web host (Radcom), the email service that delivers form messages (SendLayer) and, if you accept cookies, Google Analytics. When a project goes ahead, project information is shared only as needed to do the work, and never without your agreement.

How long I keep it

Messages and project files are kept as long as needed to answer you and carry out the project, and afterwards only as long as needed for records, invoices and legal obligations.

Your choices and rights

You can ask to see the personal information I hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted, by emailing info@kasra-shafiee.com. Depending on where you live, you may have further rights under local privacy laws.

If you are in the EU or UK

Google Analytics runs on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time with “cookie settings”. Messages and project information are used to take the steps you ask for before a possible contract and, otherwise, because I have a legitimate interest in answering messages sent to me. Your data is handled from the United States, where I am based, and by the services named above. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.